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Android Genealogy

Android Genealogy

Way back when I had a Palm which I loved. I had three before Palm stopped making the organizers. I tried other things but it was years before I found an iPod Touch. I have since added an iPad. I tried FamViewer, GEDViewer and Families on them. My comments on FamViewer are hereĀ . If you read the comments the developer tells about GEDViewer which I then tried and wrote about here. Families is only for Legacy software. It allows you…

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Three Rules to Research By

Three Rules to Research By

Genealogy’s Star: It is both who and what you know James Tanner is one of the smartest genealogists out there and he communicates well. These are old rules but he makes it very clear why you should stick to them. You might even want to subscribe to his genealogy blog. Ancestor Hunting

GEDViewer

GEDViewer

Back on February 1, 2010, I said GEDViewer, a genealogy program for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad, looked promising but couldn’t handle a large database. The programmer David Knight sent me an email saying yes it could, that the limit is based on your device memory. For my 3G iPod Touch 12 generations is probably the max. [GEDviewer is not to be confused with Genviewer, a useful product by Mudcreek Software.]I loaded the program on my iPod Touch. It imported…

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